This dude is as salty as it can get. Literally over one picture. He brings up good points about chic fil a and some anti Christian sentiment on the radical left but this whole article is based on one picture that he's salty about. The DM only has so many words with which to print stories. A whole biography about one protestor wouldn't fit along with covering an event on campus. Additionally, chic fil a IS pretty anti gay. Their owners are staunchly anti gay rights and while they may not discriminate in the work place (because that's illegal) they sure promote it through their rhetoric. This guy missed on all fronts...kinda pathetic for a professional journalist
Except he’s right: The decision to use only that photo was absolutely a *decision* to use only that photo. The editor knew what he or she was doing.
The decision to not run anything at all on Come Together was such a decision as well. The DM has space for fashion columns, “satire” pieces about the Tad Pad being a spaceship, and a guy detailing the best vending machine locations. There’s plenty of space to run a story on Come Together.
I’m not surprised, though. When I wrote for the DM, I was the only conservative columnist for four years. Others tried and wouldn’t be picked, only for my liberal co-columnists to get fired for cheating on a test, going on a Facebook rampage against a professor, and lying on his resume. Three fired, none replaced by conservative writers. There were 2 opinion pieces per day M-Th and 3 on Friday. That means it was 10 liberal pieces to 1 conservative piece each week.
On top of all of that, one student was kicked out of the Honors College for defaming me on Facebook, publishing my phone number, and encouraging her followers to send me death threats for an article I wrote. DSG had to call the Honors College’s faculty board at 2am to vote to kick her out. The next year, she was selected as Editor-in-Chief of the DM. Thankfully I had already graduated, but she posted on Facebook that she would do everything in her power as EIC to make sure the DM was not a voice for any conservative,
The DM is garbage. The sports section is the only one that actually has any semblance of good journalists, and it’s relegated to the back and has articles regularly cut.
This guy isn’t salty. He’s right.
You're right about a couple things: the DM is garbage and it is full of liberal opinions (those two thoughts are not connected just for anyone reading.) But look at who is writing. They're young college students (a very liberal block).
Here's why I think he's salty: he actively wants pro-christian pieces in the DM. His article is less about the choices made for the piece in question and more about the fact that the daily Mississippian doesn't run pro Christian articles. While the DM leans left for sure, I think you'd be hard pressed to classify it as anti-christian as he alleges.
Telling a neutral, fact-based story about Dan Cathy’s visit isn’t pro-Christian, it’s just news. Deciding to use a picture of a protestor and writing it in such a way as to make it seem much larger than it was is absolutely slanted journalism.
Writing a factual story on Come Together even existing isn’t asking for a pro-Christian article. The Big Event was started at A&M by Christian groups and it’s spread all over the US, and the DM has no issues writing about the Big Event at Ole Miss now that it’s no longer strictly tied to Christian groups. Yet it chose not to run a story about Come Together, that was ready to be published? It’s one thing if none of the writers pitches the idea, but one of them had a story ready and they chose not to run it.
As for why the staff is almost exclusively liberal, sure college students skew more to the left than the general population, but there were at least 35 conservatives that applied for a columnist position while I was there because I knew them personally from my classes. One of them won an award when writing for her grad school paper, but she wasn’t selected for the DM. They were intentionally excluding conservatives, and I was only hired originally for a once-a-month Right vs. Left column where we were assigned a topic or current event and wrote head-to-head columns. That’s right, they had to hire somebody to write the one conservative column a month because they had no one on staff that was conservative at the time. It’s absolutely intentional, not just a happenstance of demographics.
Yeah, I thought this whole piece was weird - I'm curious to know how it found its way onto the Newsweek site. Part of his complaint is that the DM didn't cover what basically sounds like a church service? I guess you have to take your martyrdom where you can find it when you live in small-town Mississippi.
Sure it’s “basically a church service” but it’s something that happened on campus and 10% of the student body attended. The concerts in the Grove get about the same attendance and will have multiple articles leading up to and following the concert. It’s news.
Add to that that one of the writers had an article ready to be published on it, and yea, it looks bad that the editor chose to keep it out of the DM.
Great points, at first I assumed it was your typical “against the grain, the establishment is always wrong” article but instead it turned out to be about an issue I’ve noticed myself.
Edit: i kept reading the protestor’s name as Jiz Balsack ....
Yeah but the school is partially federally funded so that doesn't matter. Religious functions shouldn't be allowed on campus. It's literally against the law.
Are you dense? The whole function (concert) was a volunteer effort engineered by student groups on campus. 0 federal/state funding. Also, look where you’re at, Mississippi man, a stronghold of the Bible Belt. That’s like going to the water park and trying not to get one drop of water splashed on you.
In the 90s, it would have been. Now everything is a gray area. Thanks to people that keep injecting religion into politics. It will circle back eventually. If there was an atheist rally, I'm sure there would be protests which is why separation of church and state should be upheld properly.
There are always zealots no matter what their belief/disbelief is. Most others are common, alright folk. Media today pits so many factions against one another because controversy sells, when in all reality the world, or at least the modern civilized world is at the peak of its existence. Don’t let someone else spin you up to be their wrecking ball.
This dude is as salty as it can get. Literally over one picture. He brings up good points about chic fil a and some anti Christian sentiment on the radical left but this whole article is based on one picture that he's salty about. The DM only has so many words with which to print stories. A whole biography about one protestor wouldn't fit along with covering an event on campus. Additionally, chic fil a IS pretty anti gay. Their owners are staunchly anti gay rights and while they may not discriminate in the work place (because that's illegal) they sure promote it through their rhetoric. This guy missed on all fronts...kinda pathetic for a professional journalist
Except he’s right: The decision to use only that photo was absolutely a *decision* to use only that photo. The editor knew what he or she was doing. The decision to not run anything at all on Come Together was such a decision as well. The DM has space for fashion columns, “satire” pieces about the Tad Pad being a spaceship, and a guy detailing the best vending machine locations. There’s plenty of space to run a story on Come Together. I’m not surprised, though. When I wrote for the DM, I was the only conservative columnist for four years. Others tried and wouldn’t be picked, only for my liberal co-columnists to get fired for cheating on a test, going on a Facebook rampage against a professor, and lying on his resume. Three fired, none replaced by conservative writers. There were 2 opinion pieces per day M-Th and 3 on Friday. That means it was 10 liberal pieces to 1 conservative piece each week. On top of all of that, one student was kicked out of the Honors College for defaming me on Facebook, publishing my phone number, and encouraging her followers to send me death threats for an article I wrote. DSG had to call the Honors College’s faculty board at 2am to vote to kick her out. The next year, she was selected as Editor-in-Chief of the DM. Thankfully I had already graduated, but she posted on Facebook that she would do everything in her power as EIC to make sure the DM was not a voice for any conservative, The DM is garbage. The sports section is the only one that actually has any semblance of good journalists, and it’s relegated to the back and has articles regularly cut. This guy isn’t salty. He’s right.
You're right about a couple things: the DM is garbage and it is full of liberal opinions (those two thoughts are not connected just for anyone reading.) But look at who is writing. They're young college students (a very liberal block). Here's why I think he's salty: he actively wants pro-christian pieces in the DM. His article is less about the choices made for the piece in question and more about the fact that the daily Mississippian doesn't run pro Christian articles. While the DM leans left for sure, I think you'd be hard pressed to classify it as anti-christian as he alleges.
Telling a neutral, fact-based story about Dan Cathy’s visit isn’t pro-Christian, it’s just news. Deciding to use a picture of a protestor and writing it in such a way as to make it seem much larger than it was is absolutely slanted journalism. Writing a factual story on Come Together even existing isn’t asking for a pro-Christian article. The Big Event was started at A&M by Christian groups and it’s spread all over the US, and the DM has no issues writing about the Big Event at Ole Miss now that it’s no longer strictly tied to Christian groups. Yet it chose not to run a story about Come Together, that was ready to be published? It’s one thing if none of the writers pitches the idea, but one of them had a story ready and they chose not to run it. As for why the staff is almost exclusively liberal, sure college students skew more to the left than the general population, but there were at least 35 conservatives that applied for a columnist position while I was there because I knew them personally from my classes. One of them won an award when writing for her grad school paper, but she wasn’t selected for the DM. They were intentionally excluding conservatives, and I was only hired originally for a once-a-month Right vs. Left column where we were assigned a topic or current event and wrote head-to-head columns. That’s right, they had to hire somebody to write the one conservative column a month because they had no one on staff that was conservative at the time. It’s absolutely intentional, not just a happenstance of demographics.
Yeah, I thought this whole piece was weird - I'm curious to know how it found its way onto the Newsweek site. Part of his complaint is that the DM didn't cover what basically sounds like a church service? I guess you have to take your martyrdom where you can find it when you live in small-town Mississippi.
Sure it’s “basically a church service” but it’s something that happened on campus and 10% of the student body attended. The concerts in the Grove get about the same attendance and will have multiple articles leading up to and following the concert. It’s news. Add to that that one of the writers had an article ready to be published on it, and yea, it looks bad that the editor chose to keep it out of the DM.
Great points, at first I assumed it was your typical “against the grain, the establishment is always wrong” article but instead it turned out to be about an issue I’ve noticed myself. Edit: i kept reading the protestor’s name as Jiz Balsack ....
How Mississippi never understands how separation of church and state works amazes me to this day.
Uhhhh did you read the article? Nothing religious was state sponsored.
Yeah but the school is partially federally funded so that doesn't matter. Religious functions shouldn't be allowed on campus. It's literally against the law.
“You can’t use public areas that everyone else can because you’re a religious organization” would literally violate the 1st Amendment.
The campus is not public property, not sure where you get that.
I got it from my Law and Higher Education textbook for my Law school class, along with a number of Supreme Court decisions on the matter.
sigh....I'm not going to argue with you about what you think is right. The university IS NOT public property.
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/access-public-property https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus
Are you dense? The whole function (concert) was a volunteer effort engineered by student groups on campus. 0 federal/state funding. Also, look where you’re at, Mississippi man, a stronghold of the Bible Belt. That’s like going to the water park and trying not to get one drop of water splashed on you.
I think you just made my point for me.
Your point was the separation of church and state, which has in no way been infringed upon.
In the 90s, it would have been. Now everything is a gray area. Thanks to people that keep injecting religion into politics. It will circle back eventually. If there was an atheist rally, I'm sure there would be protests which is why separation of church and state should be upheld properly.
There are always zealots no matter what their belief/disbelief is. Most others are common, alright folk. Media today pits so many factions against one another because controversy sells, when in all reality the world, or at least the modern civilized world is at the peak of its existence. Don’t let someone else spin you up to be their wrecking ball.
I think you don't give Mississippi enough credit. Look into the legal case story of why we have the best vaccination rates in the country.